Being a hyperbole:

“I am a hyperbole,” My wife said today from a conversation we were having about often feeling in life, that we were both, as Abraham Heschel put it in talking about the prophets, “one octave too high”. Maybe God has to exaggerate Himself sometimes to be heard.

Alas, it’s true, we are hyperboles, yet sometimes it seems God uses hyperbole to express Himself-hence artists and saints. Sometimes you have to yell to be heard, to be bigger than life to find and express Life.

Certainly St Paul both was, and used, lots of hyperbole! Ok, at least we are in good company! Although it’s still hard for me to hide in a cafe when i just want to read, never mind sneaking into the back pew of church to pray! Maybe artists and prophetic people are always hyperbolic. Well, at least we are hyper alive!

Maybe all people of and after God, are meant to be exaggerations of the obvious.